Monday, May 21, 2007

Hologic, Luna, NetBank, Pegasystems, The9, Altria, EGL: U.S. Equity Movers

(Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies
whose shares are having unusual price changes in U.S. exchanges
today. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names.
Share prices are as of 11:40 a.m. New York time.

Alltel Corp. (AT US) rose $4.69, or 7.2 percent, to $69.90
and traded as high as $70.45. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and TPG
Inc. agreed to buy Alltel for about $24.7 billion in the largest
leveraged buyout of a telecommunications company. Investors will
get $71.50 a share, the mobile-phone company said in a statement.
The offer is 9.6 percent more than Alltel's last closing price.
Including debt, the bid values Alltel at $27.5 billion.


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